"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."

Answer The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

As Tolkien once wrote, “A single dream is worth more than a thousand realities.” Those who delve into his imagination via the Lord of the Rings series know that a single Tolkien dream is certainly worth a million. And who knows – without a push by a friend to submit The Hobbit for publication (a book Tolkien had written for the amusement of his own children), readers may never have experienced his dream.

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